Definitely should be released without it ... it is an extension not
submitted for inclusion prior to the feature freeze ...
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm working on the promised DROP OWNED patch, and just noticed that it
> needs modifications to the Grant/Revoke machinery that are too invasive
> to consider for 8.1; the problem is that ExecuteGrantStmt takes textual
> names for objects and grantees, and what I have from pg_shdepend are
> Oids. Dropping the objects themselves is easy -- the problem is
> dropping grants to other objects.
>
> So, instead of doing that, I think it's better to convert the Oids to
> names in the shared-dependency code. This should be rewritten after the
> next development period starts, for efficiency and cleanliness.
>
> Is anyone opposed to this idea? Further, is anyone opposed to the
> addition as a whole? I'm already a month and a half late with this
> part of the shdep patch, so if people think it's better to ship this
> release without it, so be it. (Of course I don't like that.)
>
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> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
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